I'm with Ron. I read an ARC of Flashfire and it's terrific.
And Stark/Westlake does something in this book he's never
done before and it works brilliantly, adding a neat twist to
plot developments without sacrificing any of
Parker's......well, parkerness. To the question of reading
the books in any particular order, I would add that there are
2 which should be read that way. The first is Slayground, in
which Parker's heist goes awry and he is trapped and hunted
inside the town's carnival, and the other is Butcher's Moon,
in which he and his gang of semi-regular
characters--Grofield, Mackey, et al--go back to the town to
settle scores and finish business. Moon is also the last of
the "first" series of Parker books, and a smashing finale it
is, too.

Martha

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